Publications, articles and reviews written by
Bob Trubshaw – plus podcasts and videos

see also main bibliography

Articles before 2000 (excluding reviews, letters and reprints)

  1. 'Hallaton: Leicestershire's most pagan parish?' The Cauldron No.52 March 1989
  2. 'Black Annis - by herself' Earth No.13, April 1989
  3. 'One for every day of the week - and two for Sunday?' Moonshine No.17 May 1989
  4. 'Ancient and modern myths of dragon-slaying saints' Hidden History Vol. 2 No.2&3 October 1989
  5. 'Leicestershire dragon slayers gazetteer' Hidden History Vol. 2 No.2&3 October 1989
  6. 'Mercian Mysteries Group Inaugral Field Trip and Meeting' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  7. 'Standing stones and mark stones of Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October
  8. 'Holy Wells of Leicestershire - Ab Kettleby' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  9. 'Abbot's Bromley Horndance - Monday 11th September 1989 Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  10. 'Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking' Northern Earth Mysteries No.41, January 1990
  11. 'The quest for the omphalos - finding the mystical middle of England, part 1' Mercian Mysteries No.2, January 1990
  12. 'Mercian Mysteries field trip and meeting No.4: Charnwood at Yuletide' Mercian Mysteries No.2, January 1990
  13. 'The medieval church - our pagan heritage' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.6, February 1990
  14. Mercian Mysteries field trip and meeting No.5: Leicester Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  15. 'The quest for the omphalos part 2: High Cross' Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  16. 'Prima mater' [poem] Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  17. 'Beeby holy well, Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  18. 'Ancient crosses' Hidden History Vol.3, No.1, June 1990
  19. 'Surprises in churches' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  20. 'The quest for the omphalos part 3: Croft Hill' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  21. 'Grace Dieu's ghost' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  22. 'Straight thinking' Northern Earth Mysteries No.43, September 1990
  23. 'Early European Goddesses' Moonshine No.23, September 1990
  24. 'Is George-Michael a God?' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.8, October 1990
  25. 'Are earth mysteries art?' Markstone No.3, October 1990
  26. 'Incognito magical methods' The Cauldron No.58, November 1990
  27. 'Church orientation' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  28. 'The quest for the omphalos Part 4 - Royston' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  29. 'Yuletide quiztime' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  30. 'Amulets' Moonshine No.24, January 1991
  31. '"New" pagan activities in eastern England' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.9 February 1991
  32. 'The quest for the omphalos Part 5' Mercian Mysteries No.6 March 1991
  33. 'EM in MK' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  34. 'DIY astro-archaeology' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  35. 'Angel or shaman?' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  36. 'Long-lost Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  37. 'Does magnetism distort your dreams?' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  38. 'Tune in and turn Earth on' Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  39. 'Rutland' [field trip No.9] Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  40. 'St John's or Little John's Stone, Leicester'Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  41. 'The riches of a "prehistoric desert"' Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  42. 'Reality or illusion?' Northern Earth Mysteries No.46, May 1991
  43. 'Losing my innocence in Wiltshire' Touchwood Vol. 4 No.13 May 1991
  44. 'Memories from stones' Markstone No. 5 July 1991
  45. 'Market Harborough' (field trip No.13) Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  46. 'New Age or new order?' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  47. 'Son of stones' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  48. 'Old and 'new' stone circles in Oxfordshire' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  49. 'The hills are alive...' Touchwood Vol 4 No.14 August 1991
  50. 'Godmanchester's astronomical temple' Mercian Mysteries No.9 October 1991
  51. 'What can we learn from the words of the Prophet?' Mercian Mysteries No.9 October 1991
  52. 'Ritual deaths of Anglo-Saxon kings' Hidden History Vol.3 No.4 October 1991
  53. 'Dacre's bears' Northern Earth Mysteries No.48 November 1991
  54. 'Standing stones of Leicestershire' Village Voice Winter 1991
  55. 'Initiations' Talking Stick Winter 1991
  56. 'Getting stuck in' The Unicorn (no number or date) January 1992
  57. 'Joint Mercian Mysteries and Northern Earth Mysteries Moot Saturday and Sunday 26th & 27th October' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  58. 'Magnetism does distort your dreams' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  59. Wreake Valley field trip Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  60. 'Sneaky snooper-camera susses spook?' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  61. 'Where Earth and sky meet' Northern Earth Mysteries No.50 April 1992
  62. 'Santiago de Compostela' Mercian Mysteries No.11 May 1992
  63. 'Warwickshire corpse ways' Mercian Mysteries No.11 May 1992
  64. 'What is "normal" anyway?' Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  65. 'St Ann's Well, Church Langton, Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  66. 'Leyhunter - some results' Andy Norfolk and Bob Trubshaw Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  67. Gloucestershire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  68. 'The quest for the omphalos' RILKO Journal No.40, July 1992
  69. 'A review of the obvious' Small Press World Summer 1992
  70. 'The preconceptions by which we view our world' Markstone No.7, August 1992
  71. 'A new science of Earth mysteries - an overview of Rupert Sheldrake' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  72. '"Stoned" in the stone age' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  73. 'The quest for the omphalos revisited - Oxford' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  74. 'Mercian Mysteries field trip No.23 - Warwickshire' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  75. 'Yet more stones of Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  76. 'Initiations v. freethought' Talking Stick No.8 November 1992
  77. 'The black stone - omphalos of the goddess' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  78. 'Shaman's drums as star maps' [as Penny Drayton] Moonshine No.27, 1992
  79. 'The Stamford Taurus' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  80. 'A possible alignment' (Shropshire) Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  81. 'News from the frontline' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  82. 'Should all ley hunters drink a toast to Bonnie Prince Charlie?' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  83. 'Dowsing - the good, the bad and the muddled' Mercian Mysteries No.15 April 1993
  84. 'Putting things straight' The Cauldron No.68 April 1993
  85. 'Avebury field trip report' Mercian Mysteries No.16 July 1993
  86. 'Hilton, Royston and Saffron Walden field trip report' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  87. 'Lincolnshire field trip report' [with Bob Dickinson] Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  88. 'A rediscovered standing stone near Old John' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  89. 'Vernemetum and the Anglo-Saxon cemetery' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  90. 'Where are our myth makers?' Mercian Mysteries No.18 February 1994
  91. 'Royston cave and related caverns' Mercian Mysteries No.18 February 1994
  92. 'Them and us' The Ley Hunter No.120 February 1994
  93. 'Landscapes and mindscapes' Mercian Mysteries No.19 May 1994
  94. 'Gilgamesh' Mercian Mysteries No.19 May 1994
  95. 'Black dogs in folklore' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  96. 'Black dogs - guardians of the corpse ways' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  97. 'Otherwordly straightness' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  98. 'The Celtic fallacy' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  99. 'Oh no! They're at it again! The Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Western Orbital Motorway' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  100. 'Wirksworth, Derbyshire' [field trip report co-authored with Norman Fahy] Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  101. 'Monuments as ideas' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  102. 'Goddess or queen? The enigmatic carving at Braunston in Rutland' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  103. 'Buried standing stone in Leicestershire churchyard?' (Grimston) Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  104. South Warwickshire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  105. 'Mitchells Fold, Shropshire' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  106. 'The metaphors and rituals of time and place: an introduction to liminality' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
    (Revised version published as 'Why Christopher Robin wouldn't walk on the cracks' in LiminalSpace No.1 Spring 2000.)
  107. Northamptonshire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  108. 'A possible Nottinghamshire to Northamptonshire alignment' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  109. 'What did prehistoric people think? The science of cognitive archaeology' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  110. 'Sing me that old, slow melody' [poem] Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  111. 'Bronze age rituals in Turkmenistan' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  112. 'From mountain to temple to house' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  113. 'Loch Finlaggan, Islay' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  114. 'Six Hills - an Anglo-Saxon moot site' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  115. 'Dream incubation' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  116. 'Iron age shield boss from Ratcliffe' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  117. 'Black dogs and hell hounds' Talking stick 1995
  118. 'The illusion of landscape' Mercian Mysteries No.24 June 1995
  119. 'Anglo-Saxon church alignments' Mercian Mysteries No.24 June 1995
  120. 'Leicestershire's holy wells' Leicestershire now! September 1995
  121. 'Secret county' [Leicestershire crosses] Leicestershire now! October 1995
  122. 'Boudica's last battle - the possibilities compared' [introduction] Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  123. 'Boudica - the case for Atherstone and Kings Cross' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  124. Cambridge field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  125. 'Delphi, laurel leaves and altered states' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  126. 'Mercian Mysteries: the end and the future' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  127. 'Secret county' [Leicestershire stones] Leicestershire now! November 1995
  128. 'Pulling some pagan faces' Leicestershire now! December 1995
  129. 'Exploring past and place' At the Edge No.1 March 1996
  130. 'The fifth direction - sacred centres in Ireland' At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  131. 'Exploring past and place - where next?' [report on 17th TAG Conference] At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  132. 'The glossy pages' At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  133. 'The Green Men of Warmington' Northamptonshire Local History News Vol.III No.9 May 1996
  134. 'Paganism in British folk customs' At the Edge No.3 September 1996
  135. 'At the Edge on the World Wide Web' At the Edge No.3 September 1996
  136. 'Who's fringe now?' Assemblage No.1 September 1996
  137. 'The facts and fancies of the foliate face' At the Edge No.4 December 1996
  138. 'Cosmic Houses' At the Edge No.5 March 1997
  139. '"Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere" - a peep at TAG96' At the Edge No.5 March 1997
  140. 'Beyond Indiana Jones versus the Mother Goddess' At the Edge No.6 June 1997
  141. 'Weaving the world' At the Edge No.6 June 1997
  142. 'Making time' At the Edge No.7 September 1997
  143. 'The altering state of rock art research' At the Edge No.8 December 1997
  144. 'Fairies and their kin' At the Edge No.10 May 1998
  145. '"Do not call it fixity" – continuity in archaeology and folklore' 3rd Stone No.34 April-June 1999

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